This application estimates growth, and natural and harvest mortality,
rates from size frequency and/or growth increment data collected
for species undergoing continuous growth and whose young recruit
at a somewhat constant rate into the sampled population.
A very pedagogical and useful associated manuscript not
easily available on-line from the publisher is:
Smith, B.D.,
and L.W. Botsford 1998. Interpretation of growth, mortality
and recruitment patterns in size at age, growth increment and size
frequency data. Can. Spec. Pub. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 125: 125-139.
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